Point to Ponder:

The story of every human life begins with birth and ends with death. In the person of Christ, however, it was his death that was first and his life that was last. . . . It was not so much that his birth cast a shadow on his life and thus led to his death; it was rather that the cross was first, and cast its shadow back to his birth. [Bishop Fulton J. Sheen]

Points to Ponder:

The Sacred Scriptures and Fathers teach us that sometimes the human will is so weakened by the possession of the habit of sin, that the only thing left is for the (enfeebled but called) person to respond to grace and cry out to Jesus Christ for deliverance. We are assured He never fails those who so cry to Him from their hearts. So never, ever, despair. [Stephen Hand]

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